This video covers one third of “Change The Power Structure“, which in turn is a part of my “9 Point Agenda For Counter-Revolution”.

More information on the “9 Point Agenda for Counter-Revolution”

Related Topics: Abolish Aristocracies; Control Corporations; Anti-Aristocracy Tax

This is part of what I call the counterrevolution to Radically Reverse Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution. And if you don't know what I mean by that, you might want to first look at my video: “Counter-Revolution – A Nine Point Agenda for Change”.

If you've already seen that video, you still might be asking why we need to refocus tax policy as part of our effort to overcome the damage which is been done to our society over the last 40 years.

Many of us think of taxation is simply the way in which government gets the funding to keep itself going and pay the workers. But taxation is much more than that.

It is the most powerful tool that government has for influencing the economy. 
For deciding how the society operates. 
And most importantly for moving wealth from one part of the society to another.

And we desperately need to change our power structure and change the direction in which wealth is currently flowing.

I propose three general changes to tax policy and three specific tax changes.
The general changes are
one: making our tax laws clearer and easy to understand and comply with. 
two: taxing those who can afford it and regulating those who need it.
Three: encouraging and enforcing voluntary compliance with our tax laws.

The 3 specific tax changes have to do with
Social Cost and Benefit Taxation
the Anti Aristocracy tax
and the Pro-Investment Tax

Let me give you a little more detail about the three general changes. 

The first is making our tax laws clear and easy to understand as well as making them easy to comply with.

I propose we do a complete revision of the Internal Revenue Code (the tax laws of the federal government).
This is not a new idea. 
Ronnie Rodeo did it in 1986.
We are overdue. Our tax laws have become very complex.
We need to make them clear, simple and easy for anyone to understand. 
They need to be posted online both during and after the revision process.

My second general change is taxing those who can afford it and regulating those who need it.

Since Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution, the tax rates for high income taxpayers have been dramatically  reduced. I propose to raise them. 
I also propose to close many loopholes from which higher income taxpayers, both corporations and individuals have benefited.

We need to simplify compliance for all taxpayers. Simpler laws written in easy to understand language will help. But we also need to make some changes in accounting practices and increase computerization of the entire process.

We don't want to stifle entrepreneurs, and therefore I propose that larger and older corporations be subject to higher taxes and tighter regulation than small startups.

And finally we need to dedicate greater resources to assisting low and middle income individual taxpayers. They should be getting all the benefits they have coming to them without having to incur undue effort or expense.

The last general change is encouraging and enforcing voluntary compliance with our tax laws.

The first thing we need is efficient and transparent government of by and for the people. 
I have proposed an amendment to the Constitution which would require greater transparency from our government. It is covered in my video on constitutional amendments.

The next thing we need to do is increase the IRS budget so that it can effectively do its job of ensuring compliance through audits and assisting taxpayers. 
These expenditures constitute one of the few line items in the federal budget which not only pays for itself but produces additional revenue.

Those are my proposed general changes:
making our tax laws clear and easy to understand and comply with
taxing those who can afford it and regulating those who need it
and encouraging and enforcing voluntary compliance with our tax laws

I am also proposing changes to three specific tax types:
Social Cost and Benefit Taxation
the Anti Aristocracy tax
and the Pro-Investment Tax

None of these are new. All of them were in existence before Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution. 
Over the last 40 years they have been weakened and misused. 
All I propose here is that we set them right. 

The first is social cost and benefit taxation. 

Social benefit taxation is a policy which taxes behaviors which are bad for society.  
So that economic actors, be they individuals or corporations are less likely to do them because the cost, when the tax is added, will be to great.
Good examples would be
cigarette taxes  and carbon taxes

Social benefit taxation is exactly the opposite. It is simply a matter of passing laws which reduce the taxes for behavior which is good for society.   Like the charitable contributions deduction or accelerated depreciation on capital assets.

Our tax laws are full of social cost and benefit taxation. They were before Ronnie Rodeo, and they are now. 

The problem is that these days, with the tax laws being written by and for corporations and aristocracies, the behaviors which are penalized tend to be those which are good for society and many of the behaviors which are rewarded tend to be those which although they are good for corporations and aristocracies are bad for human beings.
 
As you can see, what we need is a change of direction.

I talk much more about these specifics of this and other tax policies in other videos but the concept is simple. 
Use the tax laws to reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

The second tax type which we need to address is what I call the anti-aristocracy tax.

Over the last 40 years, aristocracies, which shouldn't exist at all, have proliferated and grown ever wealthier.  
If you are not aware of this phenomenon, you might want to watch my video "Abolish Aristocracies in America".

The most important tool for abolishing aristocracies is what you may have heard referred to as the “death tax”. 
They call it that to scare you. 
The real name is estate and gift and generation-skipping transfer tax. 
But it's real name should be anti-aristocracy tax.

This law taxes wealth given to beneficiaries who have not earned it. 
Wealthy humans may spend whatever they want on themselves while they are alive. 
Only humans trying to pass on excessive wealth to others are affected by the anti-aristocracy tax. 
As you can imagine, this tax has been reduced and and loaded with loopholes over the last 40 years.

I propose we raise the rates to higher than they were before Ronnie Rodeo. 
To the point where, for billionaires, any more than one half billion dollars given to their children would incur a tax rate of 98%. 
And of course we need to close most of those loopholes.

Lastly, the pro-investment tax. Otherwise known as the capital gains tax.

Corporations tend to be very shortsighted. They are focused on current stock price and quarterly reporting rather than long-range planning and the welfare of our children and grandchildren. 

One of the reasons for this is the stock market.
Apologists for Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution will tell you that the stock market is the engine of capitalism. It is actually better described as a casino.

One of the ways that we can make our corporations less shortsighted is to make dramatic changes in the capital gains tax.

Capital gains taxation is simply the way in which we tax money received when the taxpayer sells capital asset ;
Capital assets can be
shares of stock, a business, a parcel of land, a work of art, etc

Currently we have a two-tier system. 
Assets held for you less than a year are taxed at a greater rate than those held for more than a year.
Under my proposal there will be five tiers, stratified to reward long-term investment and discourage gambling. For example, gain on assets held for one day or less will be taxed at 98%, but for those held for over 20 years the tax rate will be 5%.

This change will discourage short term gambling and re-direct investors efforts toward intelligent investment, funding our future.  
Thus i think it is appropriate to change the name from capital gains tax to Pro-Investment Tax.

to summarize:
Three general change:
making our tax laws clearer and easy to understand and comply with. 
taxing those who can afford it and regulating those who need it.
encouraging and enforcing voluntary compliance with our tax laws.

Changes to 3 specific tax types:
Social Cost and Benefit Taxation
the Anti Aristocracy Tax
and the Pro-Investment Tax


All of these proposed changes are covered in greater detail in some of my other videos.

And they are part of my larger nine point agenda for change which is intended to radically reverse Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution.   There are quite a few videos on this topic.

Related Topics: Why We Fight; Enemies; Der Don

There is a disturbing religious movement afoot in this country. 
Perpetrated by prostitutes in the pay of corporations and rich aristocracies 
and designed to perpetuate the Radical Rapepublican Revolution of Ronnie Rodeo.

They have been around for a while. And their insidious message has been widely heard and too often believed. 
But now may be the time to re-examine these charlatans and their pseudo-Christian theology.

Because they have made what I hope will be seen ultimately as a strategic mistake in adopting a seriously unwell conman and anointing him as their prophet King.

Now I don't normally like to talk about religion, and I am not going to say whether or not I consider myself a Christian. 
But I have read both the old and new Testaments of the Bible. And studied them to some modest degree.

As I read the Gospels I find there a man or son of God named Jesus of Nazareth operating as a rabbi in the Galilee and later Jerusalem. 
And he seems to have two major messages. One has to do with the coming kingdom of God. 
And the other has to do with how one should live one's life here on earth before that coming kingdom.

I'm not going to talk about the eschatological side of Jesus message today, because that has to do with the hereafter. 
But it seems pretty clear to me that with regard to life here and now, Jesus had a few important things to say.

He said that God loves humans and that if humans love God they must love each other. 
He said that we must take care of each other. Look after each others needs. 
And especially take care of those who have trouble taking care of themselves.

Jesus said that we must love all other humans, even those who do not belong to our own tribe. 

Well these so-called Christian evangelicals are preaching a very different message. 
(And if you have played my videos where I discussed the difference between inclusionism and exclusionism, you know exactly what I'm driving at here.)

They are exclusionists. 
They would prefer to live in a world where everyone else believes exactly as they do. 
As a matter of fact most of them are also racists. 
They would prefer to live in a world where everyone looks and talks like they do.

Now if you've seen any of my videos you know that I am in inclusionist. 
I think exclusionism and racism and hatred (contempt) are evils which are bad for humans and human society.

But no matter what I believe, the Jesus that I read about in the Gospels is clearly opposed to exclusionism and racism. ABSOLUTELY

He says that God loves all humans and that our only job is to love God and love each other.

Well that's where it is really obvious these charlatan pseudo-Christians have got it wrong. 
Since they claim to be Christian, they should be following Jesus. 
And yet they preach a message which is antithetical, heretical and theologically incorrect.

They say that if you are wealthy and successful it is a sign of God's love. 
If you are not wealthy and successful you need to send them money and do what they say in order to get right with God.

They also say, though not always overtly, that white American men are a special tribe blessed by God. And that others are in various ways inferior.

Now this message and others that I won't go into are designed to support their masters, the wealthy corporations and aristocracies who have perpetuated Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution.

And the message has been increasingly successful especially over the last 40 years.

The fact that it is diametrically opposed to the message of Jesus has somehow eluded its adherents.

Well now they may have gone a step too far. 
Because they have anointed an obvious mentally ill conman as their prophet King. They have joined forces with Der Don.

Now of course they all would've preferred that Jeb Bush become president. 
But when that didn't happen they made what I hope was a strategic mistake by aligning themselves with this caricature of a human being who is so vividly and undeniably everything that Jesus was not.

He has some of the worst characteristics of King David and King Solomon with none of their wisdom virtue and love of God. 
And he is completely antithetical to Jesus.

As Der Don's lies are exposed and the con unravels --- some, though not all, of his adherents will see him for what he is.

And one hopes that those who are true Christians will take that time of revelation and reassessment as an opportunity to rediscover the Jesus of the Gospels 
and reject the pseudo-Christianity perpetrated by prostitutes in the pay of corporations and rich aristocracies and designed to perpetuate the Radical Rapepublican Revolution of Ronnie Rodeo. 

Counterrevolution is coming. 
And I think Jesus would probably be with us.

Related Topics: Why We Fight; Enemies; Der Don; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

This Video is an introduction to my “9 Point Agenda For Counter-Revolution”.

More information on the “9 Point Agenda for Counter-Revolution”

America is angry.

And we've got a right to be angry. Two score years ago, domestic enemies of we the people of the United States hijacked our government and reversed the course of American history.

I call it Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution.

Cabals of corporations and clubs of aristocracies combined with some unscrupulous political, cultural, and even religious leaders to steal the government from we the American people and put a stop to much of what has made America great.

Today fewer human beings have fewer human rights than they did in 1979.

Today the children and grandchildren of hard-working American citizens and residents cannot look forward, as they could in 1979, to a better life then their parents.

Today our infrastructure and our educational system, once the envy of the world, are starving and crumbling before our eyes.

We have a right to be angry!!!! 

Now the American people are not stupid. 
Early on we realized that something was wrong. 
And in almost every presidential election since 1988 we voted for candidates who promised change. 

But it has only gotten worse. 
Because the enemies of the American people have stolen our economy, stolen our government, and worst of all stolen the American dream.

Ronnie Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution which started with the 1980 presidential election reversed the course of American history. And it's only getting worse.

It is time for a counter revolution. It is time to put this country back on the course set up by our founders and pursued by subsequent generations of Americans all the way up until 1980.

Is time to make some major changes.

I would like to propose nine specific changes broken down into three general categories. 
I've got a lot more detail on these proposals in other videos. Here I'm just going to introduce them.

Three categories. Change the Direction, Change the Power Structure, and Change the Constitution.

To Change The Direction I propose these three initiatives: 
People's Political Campaigns, 
Funding the Future, 
and More Human Rights For More Human Beings (The SuperCharger of Civilization).

I propose these efforts toward changing the power structure. 
Refocusing Tax Policy, 
Re-Forming Corporations, and 
Re-Evaluating Warfare.

And finally three constitutional amendments. 
To restore government of the people, Greater Transparency. 
To restore government by the people, Representative Representatives, 
and To restore government for the people, the simple declaration that corporations are not persons and do not possess human rights.

There is no doubt that we the people of the United States are in trouble. 
There is no doubt that we are angry. 
There is no doubt that we need to make some changes.

As you think about where to direct your righteous anger and what changes need to be made, 
I hope you will be willing to explore some of my other videos and hear the details of the changes I proposed here.

In any event, let's all stay angry and let's not let them get away with this any longer

Counter-Revolution!    NOW!

A Specter is Haunting America

Related Topics: “9 Point Agenda For Counter-Revolution”; Why We Fight; Enemies; More Human Rights For More Human Beings; “9 Point Agenda For Counter-Revolution”

Something wrong in the United States of America
 and we've gotta make it right
 almost 40 years ago, non human entities started taking control of our government
 I call it Ronnir Rodeo's Reactionary Rapepublican Revolution.
 huge corporations and unamerican aristocracies have stolen our country
 and we want it back!
 the enemy is rich and powerful
 and they are crafty
 They are trying to divide us and make us fight among ourselves
 while perverting our government and steeling our human rights
 it's time for all us human beings to stand up together and declare loud & strong
 there is no us or them --- there is only we – the people of the United States of America
 and we are all in this together
 we demand human rights for ALL of us
 we demand the abolition of aristocracies and control of corporations
 we want our nation back
 govt of the people by the lawyers and lobbyists for the corporations & aristocracies
 must be replaced
 counter-revolution ----- NOW

This video covers one third of my “9 Point Agenda For Counter-Revolution”.

#1 “Of The People” – Government Transparency
#2 “By The People” – Citizen Legislators, Not Professional Politicians
#3 “For The People” – Human Rights For Human Beings, Not Corporations and Other Non-Human Entities

More information on the “9 Point Agenda for Counter-Revolution”

Related Topics: Control Corporations; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

If you have seen many of my other videos you may have noticed a constant refrain – – – I keep calling for a counterrevolution.

You see I believe that in 1980 Ronnie rodeo's reactionary Rapepublican revolution reversed the generally positive course of American history and I want to switch it back.

So if you are watching this and you are not sure why I think we should change the Constitution you might want to look at some of those other videos.

This is all about people – – – human beings – – – taking back our government from the non-human entities which have stolen it from us.

The Government lies to its citizens. 
Laws are intentionally made so obtuse that not even legislators voting upon them and understand them. Often they are given titles which are diametrically opposite of the true intended effect of the law.

Sometimes amendments are created which actually reverse the meaning of the law, or sneak in laws on completely unrelated topics.

No wonder true patriots don't even want to be a part of Congress. The people running for office are often   prostitutes, looking to advance their own well-being by selling out their fellow citizens for the benefit of the nonhuman entities who fund their campaigns.

This is become government of the people by corrupt lawyers lobbyists and professional politicians for cabals of corporations and clubs of wealthy aristocracies.

If Mr. Lincoln or Mr. Jefferson were alive today they would recognize this situation it is called tyranny.

The answer to tyranny is revolution. Or in our case counter revolution, since what we oppose is a tyranny imposed upon our nation almost four decades ago by Ronnie rodeo's reactionary Rapepublican revolution.

And we don't need to start from scratch. The Constitution of the United States was designed to to function as a framework for exactly the form of government which we seek.

And it worked pretty well until 1980.

Now the framers of our Constitution understood that they could not foresee the future or the potential tyrannies and domestic enemies who might subvert their work. So they gave we the people a tool for adjusting our form of government short of total revolution. The Constitution is designed to be amended.

I propose three amendments to get this counter-revolution started.

In additional videos I give more detail on each 
and in other videos I offer additional suggestions for change, such as 
new taxing policy 
Expansion of human rights
And changes in the rules which create and govern corporations.

But here we are dealing with amendments to the Constitution of the United States and I have three to offer.

To make them easy to remember I have tied them to Mr. Lincoln's immortal phrase

the first amendment: “Of the people” – – – government has to tell the people what it is doing and why. – “Transparency”

The second amendment  “by the people” – – – laws must be written by citizen legislators.

The third amendment  “for the people” – – – human rights are for human beings.


Here is the actual wording:
the first amendment (dealing with transparency) has three parts.

Article 1 – all government communication is the property of the people.

Once a law is passed or regulation promulgated all deliberative documents must be made public. All meetings with public officials must be documented with contemporaneous notes. 

No notes, email or other communication may be destroyed.

Article 2 – some documents may be kept secret
but only for a specified period of time
and only when necessitated by real and verifiable national security issues 

Article 3 – – – all laws must be written in clear direct language.



The second amendment – dealing with citizen legislators also has three parts.

Article 1 
No member of the House of Representatives may serve more than three consecutive terms in the house. And total service may not exceed eight years.

Article 2
No member of the House of Representatives may accrue any benefits from the treasury of the United States which are not shared with the population in general. These benefits include but are not restricted to – – – healthcare, retirement, transportation or auto license.

Article 3 
After serving in the House of Representatives, no citizen may work for the United States government or government contractor 
or be registered as a lobbyist to the United States government for a period equal to the time served as a representative.

The third amendment has only one article.

Within this document and the laws of the United States the following terms refer exclusively to living human beings:

People; ourselves; posterity; person or persons; citizen; inhabitant.

Notice that nonhuman entities such as corporations and aristocratic families are not included in that list.


So to summarize, three amendments.

The amendment for government of the people – – – government has to tell the people what it is doing and why.

The amendment for government by the people – – – laws are to be written by citizen legislators, at least in the House of Representatives.

Amendment for government for the people – – – human rights are for human beings.

Because government of the people, by the lawyer, lobbyists, and professional politicians; for cabals of corporations and clubs of wealthy aristocracies must be replaced 

There Is No “Us Or Them”     There is only “We”
And We are all in this together

Related Topics: Human Beings; Human Society; More Human Rights For More Human Beings; Der Don

So what do I mean by us and them?

Whole lot of folks out there believe that there are two kinds of people in the world – – – us and them.

Us is good, them is bad or us is Democrats, and them is Republicans. Or us is Christians, them is heathens, us is Redskin fans, them is cowboy fans.

Just two kinds of people – – – us and them

Now some folks go a little further. They say it's us OR them.

For example it's us Americans or them Russians – – – it is the truth or fake news – – – it is God or science – – –

Because us are good and them are evil.

And the difference between the us AND them folks and those who believe it's us OR them, is that the us OR them advocates think that us have to overpower them because them is determined to destroy us and our way of life. The us OR them people believe that there is a struggle going on and it will end in the destruction of one side or the other, whereas the us AND them people just believe that the world is divided into two kinds of humans the good ones and the bad ones.

Well AND them is just a mighty simplistic and unrealistic way of looking at the world.  But us OR them is a damned dangerous lie!
 
There is no us or them.
They are all us and we are all them. 
There is only we. And we are all in this together.

Or as the Beatles said: I am he as you are he as you are me  
And we are all together 


Now you will hear people say that belief in us or them is a fundamental characteristic of human nature. Social scientists will tell you that we are tribal. What do they mean by that?

Well they figure that humans started out as small family units. All the children and spouse of one mother or all of the children and spouse of one father.

And within the tribe they shared and cooperated in order to survive and to have an environment in which they could raise children.

And as time went on tribes interacted with other tribes. In a peaceful fashion. We are naturally social beings.  And interaction between tribes is similar to interaction within a family. One tribe may have something that is useful to another and vice versa so they trade.

Now the us or them advocates will tell you that when one tribe encountered the other they usually fought with each other. But that's really unlikely. As I say we are social animals. Our natural tendency is to interact in a friendly manner. 

And all current evidence suggests that resources were not scarce so early humans would have to fight each other to survive.

Besides, if family tribes are nothing but antagonistic to each other, who are they going to marry? 
Not their brothers and sisters. 
We are sure that that taboo is deeply rooted. And it's there for very good reasons.  They have got to find a spouse in another tribe.

So tribes are interacting. They are trading goods and services between each other. They recognize family identity, so there is some element of us and them, but certainly not us OR them. 

But today there's a whole lot of people who do believe it's "us or them"  Where did it go wrong?

Will, there are three perversions of human society. 
They are Warfare, Slavery and Aristocracy.

Warfare probably came first. One tribe figured out that if they threatened harm or death they could steal the possessions of several other tribes and therefore have a more luxurious lifestyle.

Slavery follows easily upon warfare. Instead of stealing the possessions of other tribes you steal their personhood. You make them your possessions.

And aristocracy is just a way of applying warfare and slavery within a given extended tribe. 

As tribes grew larger and turned into city states, subgroups within the city state applied the principles of warfare and slavery to other subgroups and that's what aristocracy is.

Warfare slavery and aristocracy are perversions against the social nature of humanity. They are not natural. Humans will resist them.

The only way you can get humans to accept them  is to create a mythology which justifies them. 
Us or them is that mythology.
    
 And it's a lie. There is no us or them.

The real enemies are the institutions of warfare slavery and aristocracy which pervert our social nature.

There is no us or them. They are all us and we are all them. There is only we. And we are all in this together.

Now this video touches on but does not discuss a couple of interesting questions:
What about the vast proliferation of human tribes today?  And
If “Us Or Them” is a lie, why do so many people believe in it?

Related Topics: Why We Fight; Enemies; Abolish Aristocracies; Control Corporations; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

government of the people, by the people and for the people: a real important phrase from the gettysburg address.

You know Mr. Lincoln was a kind man at heart. It must have pained him terribly to know that, in a sense, he had caused the death of so many hundreds of thousands of human beings. He reconciled that by saying that there was something worth dying for. 

That in an experiment that had begun 87 years earlier, a nation had been founded by people seeking liberty and freedom and a place where all humans would be recognized as having been created equal.

He summed up the crisis of his time with the warning that if goodness did not prevail, government of the people by the people and for the people would perish from the earth.

now there is a mighty powerful phrase.

it sums up eloquently the reason for the war and more importantly ----
the IDEA on which our nation was founded 
and the IDEAL toward which we have striven.

Well, the good news is that it has not perished from the earth. That form of government, so radical 87 years before Abraham Lincoln has taken root in many countries all over the world in the century and a half since the Gettysburg address. 

The bad news is that is it is almost extinct within Mr. Lincoln's own home country.

remember: it is government
of ....... by ....... and for
the people

Well … there is still a government in washington.  And it actually has a whole lot more control over the lives of the people today than it did in mr lincoln's day.  So it's still government OF the people.

But it is no longer government BY the people.  
and certainly not FOR the people.

Today congress is composed of professional politicians who don't give a damn what's good for the people they are supposed to represent.  Most of them are lawyers and their campaigns are paid for by 
cabals of corporations and 
clubs made up of wealthy aristocratic families.  

If they loose an election, instead of going back home and becoming one of we the people, they become lobbyists and work directly for the evil forces who bought and paid for them with campaign funds.

And for the most part our legislators don't even write the laws themselves anymore.  They just sign off on what they are told to do by their rich owners.   
while most of the work is done by lobbyists,

Now … Congress has never been perfect.
but never before has our government strayed so far from its purpose and design as described in the Declaration of Independence the Constitution and the Gettysburg address.


Well this all started almost 40 years ago with the election in 1980 of a very slick huckster working for the cabals of corporations and clubs of  wealthy aristocratic families. 

I call him Ronnie Rodeo

i talk a lot more about Ronnie Rodeo in some of my other videos,
but … basically:

Ronnie Rodeo was an insidiously likable con man.  He attacked our democracy with a radical rapepublican revolution that was nothing less than a complete reversal of direction in the course of american history.

and ronnie was told what to say and do by those same cabals of corporations and clubs of aristocracies.

The presidents who followed Ronnie were for the most part also owned by the cabals and members of the clubs.

Barry O”B was something of an exception.  He promised change, but the owners of congress hogtied him and business went on as usual.

Der Don won by also promising change; 
as well as riding a wave of hatred, frustration and racism.   But he's been a whole lot easier to control than Barry.  

The cabals and clubs just surrounded him with a rotating corp of their minions who feed his ego and make sure he hews to their agenda.

and that's how government of by and for the people has been changed in the last four decades into
government of the people, by the lawyers, lobbyists and professional politicians, for the cabals of corporations and clubs of wealthy aristocracies

Now america was never perfect.

 Until Mr. Lincoln's time, many of our states practiced the most insidious form of chattel slavery. Women only got the vote in 1920. Social Security didn't happen until the 30s and it wasn't until 150 years after the Civil War that we even started to come to terms with the racism that slavery and that bitter conflict had left in its wake.

But we have striven to move forward. Expanding the American dream both in the numbers of people who can benefit from it and the human rights which it covers.   I describe this in greater detail in some of my other videos.

That is we have striven in that direction until 1980.

Since that time, with some remarkable exceptions, we have been moving backward.

Ronnie rodeo's radical rapepublication revolution has been in charge for almost 40 years.  

It is time for a counter-revolution.

Government of the people by the lawyers, lobbyists and professional politicians, for the cabals of corporations and clubs of wealthy aristocracies   must ...... be ....... replaced!

Counter Revolution
NOW

The Declaration says it is the job of government to secure Human Rights.
And “Life Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness” was never meant to be a complete list

Related Topics: Why We Fight; More Human Rights For More Human Beings

You've heard about life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I'm here to tell you that is not, and was never intended to be, a complete list.

Now that phrase life liberty and the pursuit of happiness comes from the Declaration of Independence. That declaration made quite a number of statements which were pretty radical for their time. They are even perceived of as being radical today.

Well that's who we are.

The most well-known part of the Declaration of Independence, from the preamble, says that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by whatever created them with certain unalienable rights. It also says that the main job of government is to secure those rights.

What I'm talking about today are those unalienable rights. Now Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the declaration, and he mentions three. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. 

But before enumerating the rights he says “among these” --- among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

So he is saying there are more!  And I think if you pressed Mr. Jefferson and his colleagues in authorizing the declaration Mr. Adams and Dr. Franklin they would agree that “among these” are also – – – 
the right to own property; 
the right to practice one's religion and have one's own beliefs; 
the right to travel and live where one pleases. 
Also the right to establish a business ----- or to choose one's own employer. 
The right to choose one's wife.  
----- Notice I say wife, not spouse. These rights were for men; but not necessarily for women. ---- I'll be talking about that in just a minute or two.

Getting back to those other (un-enumerated, but still unalienable Rights:
The ones I just mentioned would I think be agreed upon by all three authors. 

But Mr. Adams and Dr. Franklin might also have added – – – 
the right to not be owned,            the right to not be the property of another man.
 
Mr. Jefferson might not agree with that one. 

Actually …. we ended up fighting a war over that in the 1860s,
 but I think that today we all agree that it is among the unalienable rights that you can't be owned by another person. 

So ------ that right was not universally accepted before and is now. 

! ----- The rights expand over time. 

As the nation has developed, the number of unalienable rights that we recognize as being “among these” has grown.

 
Also the group of humans who possess these unalienable rights has expanded over time.
 
African-Americans who were no longer property after the 1860s acquired many of the rights ---- though not all. 
And lost some over time,  only to have them restored in the 1960s. 

Women as I mentioned before did not possess the unalienable rights in 1776. 
Abigail Adams who, through her husband, contributed to the writing of the declaration was not a man, 

so her rights, such as they were, were not considered unalienable. 

Women received some unalienable rights in the 1920s and more in the 1960s. 

African-Americans and women are among the more obvious groups who have obtained new rights over time. But there are others.

So over time there is an expansion of the number of rights, 
and an expansion of the groups of humans who possess them.

You could say this whole process actually started in the year 1215.   when the king of england granted some limited rights to a limited group of noblemen in a document called the Magna Carta.

Before 1215 the humans who were considered to have unalienable rights pretty much limited to the rulers. 
The Magna Carta established some rights for the nobility, the English barons. 
Later all white male landowners had some unalienable rights and those were ultimately extended to all white men. 
Then all male citizens, 
then they included females. 
Later some rights were granted to immigrants. 

As I mentioned, the rights of African-Americans were granted in the 1860s eroded over the next century reestablished in the 1960s. 

Now I would maintain that the unalienable rights bestowed by the creator of humans have always applied to all of these individuals, but the United States government and our collective social understanding has taken some time before acknowledging all those individuals as possessing unalienable rights. 

As a matter of fact in recent years, as the government has withdrawn some of the rights of humans. 
They are not allowed to do that.  Those rights are unalienable!

The government has also had the audacity to declare that human rights belong to corporations and other nonhuman entities. 
That's downright ridiculous!  

This has got to stop.  

The united states of america was established on a declaration of unalienable human rights
the american dream is based on expansion of those rights.
Any government which does not secure those rights is not doing its job.
And a government like this one which is trying to take them away needs to be replaced.

If I haven't convinced you yet that it is time for a revolution, I hope you will play some of my other videos, 
especially the sequel to this one: “Among These Part 2; Ronnie Rodeo and the Withdrawal of Human Rights”

This time I'd like to talk about how the rights of Americans are under attack.
 You've heard about life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 
 In part one if this series: “Among These, Human Rights and the American Dream” I pointed out that “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is not, and was never intended to be, a complete list.
 If you haven't played that video already, I recommend you do so before continuing with this one.
 In that video, I pointed out that the number of rights that our government recognizes as being unalienable has grown over the years.
 Also the definition of who our government recognizes as possessing those rights has grown to include women, former slaves, and almost all human beings.
 And this has been a prime driver of our success as a people.
 But since 1980, the process has been reversed.
 The government has been taking away rights 
 and restricting which humans are allowed to exercise their rights.
 They have been taking away rights from humans.  But they have been giving them to non human entities.  The supreme court said that corporations can have the same rights as humans !!!!
 well i'll tell you this: any rights corporations have are not unalienable.  They are not bestowed by the creator of human beings.
 As a matter of fact the creator of corporations and similar entities is government. Government can bestow and withdraw rights to Corporations.
 Now i'm not going to say any more about corporations in this video.   but I discuss them in more detail in some of my other videos.
 So even though corporations' rights can be taken away by the government ---Human rights are unalienable and beyond the reach of government.
 The declaration said so!
 Another thing they have been doing is giving special privileges to aristocracies.  That is a clear violation of the declaration.   But it is also something I discuss in other videos.
 Here i'm talking mostly about human rights. And, as I noted in part 1, the declaration specifically declares that the main purpose of government is to secure the unalienable rights of human persons. 
 And over time since 1776, the unalienable rights which America recognizes and the human persons which America recognizes as having those unalienable rights has grown. 
 And this has been one of the secrets of our success as a nation and a people. More rights for more people generates progress of all kinds. It unleashes human creativity, and builds wealth.
 It has created an optimistic nation of empowered individuals, "we the people". 
 It has enabled entrepreneurs.
 In an environment of expanding human rights young people with new ideas have the resources to try them out. 
 Many may fail, but it is a learning experience for them and they are not completely ruined by their failure.  Because they still have their human rights.
 and while many fail, some succeed spectacularly and benefit all.
 I talk more about this in my video in “geniuses”
 The progress of expanding rights has not been steady, and there have been setbacks.  But there have also been times of rapid improvement
 the Magna Carta in 1215 which established some rights for some people. 
 Then in 1776 at the time of declaration the three enumerated unalienable rights 
 and others specified later in the Constitution of the United States. Especially in the bill of rights.
 In the 1830s, the Jacksonian Democrats established more rights for more humans 
 in the 1860s the war between the states led to rights being expanded 
 and then in the early 20th century during the progressive era more progress was made. 
 Moving forward, the 1930s saw the new deal, 
 the 1960s the civil rights,  feminist,  and antiwar movements broadened both the rights and the individuals who possess them.
 To the point where our rights included:
 Freedom from unreasonable force & imprisonment
 Right to Bear Arms
 To disagree with the government
 Right to Fresh Water and Sanitation
 Sexual Reproductive Rights for both men and women
 Shelter
 Electric Power
 Money and Credit
 Heat and Air Conditioning
 Health Care
 Education 
 (laugh) Now you may be listening to that list and thinking, wait a minute. 
 African-Americans don't really have freedom from unreasonable force and imprisonment. 
 Sexual reproductive rights for women are being taken away in many states. 
 The people of Flint Michigan don't seem to have the right to fresh water. 
 A whole lot of folks can no longer afford an education. 
 And an increasing number of Americans are becoming homeless. 
 What's going on here?
 Well we were doing pretty well up until 1980.       
 when something I call the Ronnie rodeo reactionary Republican revolution started. And that's been going on now for almost 40 years. 
 During that time we have made a little bit of progress. But mostly we've been going backwards.
 The United States government has been taking away the unalienable rights of its citizens and residents. And reducing the number of human beings it even considers to possess any unalienable rights.
 Now this government was founded on a declaration which declared that the rights of humans, among which are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, are unalienable. 
 They are given by the creator of those humans and cannot be taken away by any government. 
 As a matter of fact the declaration specifically states that one of the main purposes of government is to secure those rights for those human beings.
 But Ronnie rodeo was a con man working for a group of evil aristocrats and corporations. 
 He was a pretty smooth con man. And he fooled a lot of people. 
 The con has been going on ever since.
 But ….. the guy who is operating the con right now. 
 The guy who is fronting for those corporations and aristocrats ….. is not nearly as smooth or as good an actor as Ronnie rodeo. 
 And it should be clear to most human beings that the American dream which has always been based for expanding rights acknowledged for an expanding number of people is being taken away.
 The secret of our success is being destroyed. 
 And far from making America great again, those currently in positions of power are attempting to make America a colony again and most of its people slaves again.
 If Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Adams and Dr. Franklin were alive today they'd say it's time for revolution.
 Because a government which does not secure the unalienable rights of human beings – among which are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness has no right to exist.
 Fortunately that same generation of wise political leaders who brought us the Declaration of Independence also created the Constitution of the United States. 
 And it is still possible to Revolutionarily change our government within that Constitution. But we the people of the United States need to do it.    And we need to do it now. 
 Or pretty soon, all our human rights, including life, liberty and especially the pursuit of happiness are going to be taken away by the same government which is supposed to secure them for us and our posterity.     
 Government of the people by the lawyers and lobbyists, for the corporations and aristocracies must be replaced!
   NOW!